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Demographics of POV characters (UPDATED 2024)
A spectacular series of (currently) eight books*, one short story and two games by Max Gladstone, who “uses fantasy to talk about our weird modern world in the same way lots of books use fantasy to approach the medieval world.”
There are literal gods (who sometimes die), necromancer-sorcerer-lawyers (who sometimes kill them), gargoyle poets, dragons that deign to act as jumbo jets, vampire pirates, flying universities, and some of the best worldbuilding descriptions you’ll ever read.
*ninth book due to be published Fall 2025
Who is Belladonna Albrecht? Why am I so obsessed with a character who is never seen on-page, and who is referenced by name only ten times? Read to find out.
With 44 POV characters across 8 books, who has the most narrative page-time in the Craft Sequence so far? Who are the ‘main’ characters, and what does that mean for the story?
Need a reminder of the plot of the Craft Sequence before reading Wicked Problems? You’re in luck - the first seven books all summarised neatly here.
Everything you need to remember from DEAD COUNTRY before reading WICKED PROBLEMS. Characters, plots, and the importance of the book for the rest of the series.
Everything you need to remember from RUIN OF ANGELS before reading WICKED PROBLEMS. Characters, plots, and the importance of the book for the rest of the series.
Everything you need to remember from FULL FATHOM FIVE before reading WICKED PROBLEMS. Characters, plots, and the importance of the book for the rest of the series.
Everything you need to remember from FOUR ROADS CROSS before reading WICKED PROBLEMS. Characters collide, and my gods it’s a fun one.
Everything you need to remember from THREE PARTS DEAD before reading WICKED PROBLEMS. Characters, plots, and the importance of the book for the rest of the series.
Everything you need to remember from TWO SERPENTS RISE before reading WICKED PROBLEMS. Characters, plots, and the importance of the book for the rest of the series.
Everything you need to remember from LAST FIRST SNOW before reading WICKED PROBLEMS. Characters, plots, and the importance of the book for the rest of the series.
A year ago we predicted what might happen in Dead Country - how accurate were we? And what else do we predict for Wicked Problems and the Craft Wars series?